presents our 12th annual

This event will be a major fund-raiser for the 2007-08 season. Please come out and enjoy a great evening of music, food and festivities.

The evening will feature members from the  Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble. The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, established in 1989, has performed in hundreds of concerts across Canada and the United States.  Together they combine technical mastery with a passionate approach to music. Performed in a variety of combinations, their instruments include erhu (Chinese violin), dizi (Chinese flute), pipa (Chinese lute), yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), zheng (Chinese harp), and ruan (Chinese guitar).

The Ensemble has worked with composers, including Zhuo Rui-Shi who wrote three pieces which were premiered in 1999. This versatile group embraces the popular and the classical traditions of China as well as western classical and contemporary music performed on Chinese instruments. The ensemble has a broad repertoire encompassing traditional music from various regions of China, to adaptations of Canadian folk songs and other music, as well as contemporary composition. In addition to self-produced concert presentations, the ensemble has performed at numerous folk music festivals, including those in Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg. Its performances have also been broadcast on radio and television, and they released their first CD, Transplanted Purple Bamboo, in 2000.

Live and Silent Auction Items will also be available throughout the evening.

The program will include works by Canadian composers Chan Ka Nin, An-Lun Huang, and Jin Zhang. Also featuring Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor.